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$125M
Capital Allocated
168
Innovate Alabama Network Partners
68
Supplemental Grant Recipients
1,023
Jobs Created & Retained*
*With all Innovate Alabama funding and programs since 2022
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Explore Alabama’s Innovation Ecosystem
The Innovate Alabama Asset Map is designed to help entrepreneurs, investors and ecosystem builders quickly identify and connect with programs and organizations shaping Alabama’s economy of the future. Whether you’re looking for support, searching for potential partners, seeking key demographic insights or exploring Innovate Alabama’s economic impact, this tool helps you find and engage with leading innovators across the state.
- Filter by Innovate Alabama programs or organizations that have received support to see our reach and impact.
- Search by organization name to find key ecosystem partners in your area.
- Access census data to analyze workforce, demographics and economic trends by county.
Opportunity in Alabama means opportunity for all.
At Innovate Alabama, we’re committed to everyone having the opportunity to bring their ideas to life. We have programs designed specifically to help underrepresented groups, including women, minorities and rural founders, gain access to the capital and resources they need. Whether it’s Alabama’s SSBCI program, the HBCU Innovation Experience or a number of other programs, we’re all in on helping every innovator succeed.

Our Programs
Talent Development
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas)
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas), launched by The University of Alabama Honors College in collaboration with Innovate Alabama, consists of a student innovation contest focused on progressing young entrepreneurs and developing ideas.
Talent Development
FuelAL
FuelAL, a program in partnership between the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama and Innovate Alabama, connects undergraduate and graduate students to a region and its employers through activities that showcase Alabama’s unique assets, from sporting events and downtown concerts to beachside festivals and hikes in Alabama’s beautiful parks.
Talent Development
HBCU Innovation Experience
The HBCU Innovation Experience, a collaboration between The Alabama Collective and Innovate Alabama, offers a multi-phased approach to expose students to Alabama’s countless opportunities, educate students and faculty with training courses, empower students with statewide events and engage entrepreneurs with app design and business pitch competitions.
Access to Resources
Innovate Alabama Network
The Innovate Alabama Network serves as a comprehensive resource that connects communities, nonprofits and higher education institutions across the state who are fostering innovation in their own backyard. Through this designation program, Innovate Alabama provides resources and funding to those who are shaping the state’s ecosystem.
Talent Development
QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars
The QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars Internship Program places high school juniors and seniors from around the state into paid learning experiences to grow their competitive data literacy skills and to engage them with careers in data science.
Access to Resources
State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI)
Alabama’s State Small Business Credit Initiative is a program designed to support small businesses and entrepreneurs. LendAL aims to stimulate private sector lending by partnering with private lenders to extend credit to small businesses, fostering growth, innovation and job creation across the state. InvestAL offers high-match investments, connecting investors with early-stage startups and venture capital organizations.
Access to Resources
Supplemental Grant Program
The Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program provides additional funding for small businesses whose proven business models and technologies are helping accelerate innovation in the state.
Access to Resources
Tax Credit Program
To create a flourishing ecosystem in Alabama where tech accelerators and businesses thrive, Innovate Alabama offers tax incentives to help entrepreneurial support organizations do what they do best: provide the tools, resources and opportunities that help founders level up their companies.
Talent Development
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas)
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas), launched by The University of Alabama Honors College in collaboration with Innovate Alabama, consists of a student innovation contest focused on progressing young entrepreneurs and developing ideas.
Talent Development
FuelAL
FuelAL, a program in partnership between the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama and Innovate Alabama, connects undergraduate and graduate students to a region and its employers through activities that showcase Alabama’s unique assets, from sporting events and downtown concerts to beachside festivals and hikes in Alabama’s beautiful parks.
Talent Development
HBCU Innovation Experience
The HBCU Innovation Experience, a collaboration between The Alabama Collective and Innovate Alabama, offers a multi-phased approach to expose students to Alabama’s countless opportunities, educate students and faculty with training courses, empower students with statewide events and engage entrepreneurs with app design and business pitch competitions.
Access to Resources
Innovate Alabama Network
The Innovate Alabama Network serves as a comprehensive resource that connects communities, nonprofits and higher education institutions across the state who are fostering innovation in their own backyard. Through this designation program, Innovate Alabama provides resources and funding to those who are shaping the state’s ecosystem.
Talent Development
QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars
The QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars Internship Program places high school juniors and seniors from around the state into paid learning experiences to grow their competitive data literacy skills and to engage them with careers in data science.
Access to Resources
State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI)
Alabama’s State Small Business Credit Initiative is a program designed to support small businesses and entrepreneurs. LendAL aims to stimulate private sector lending by partnering with private lenders to extend credit to small businesses, fostering growth, innovation and job creation across the state. InvestAL offers high-match investments, connecting investors with early-stage startups and venture capital organizations.
Access to Resources
Supplemental Grant Program
The Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program provides additional funding for small businesses whose proven business models and technologies are helping accelerate innovation in the state.
Access to Resources
Tax Credit Program
To create a flourishing ecosystem in Alabama where tech accelerators and businesses thrive, Innovate Alabama offers tax incentives to help entrepreneurial support organizations do what they do best: provide the tools, resources and opportunities that help founders level up their companies.
Talent Development
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas)
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas), launched by The University of Alabama Honors College in collaboration with Innovate Alabama, consists of a student innovation contest focused on progressing young entrepreneurs and developing ideas.
Talent Development
FuelAL
FuelAL, a program in partnership between the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama and Innovate Alabama, connects undergraduate and graduate students to a region and its employers through activities that showcase Alabama’s unique assets, from sporting events and downtown concerts to beachside festivals and hikes in Alabama’s beautiful parks.
Talent Development
HBCU Innovation Experience
The HBCU Innovation Experience, a collaboration between The Alabama Collective and Innovate Alabama, offers a multi-phased approach to expose students to Alabama’s countless opportunities, educate students and faculty with training courses, empower students with statewide events and engage entrepreneurs with app design and business pitch competitions.
Access to Resources
Innovate Alabama Network
The Innovate Alabama Network serves as a comprehensive resource that connects communities, nonprofits and higher education institutions across the state who are fostering innovation in their own backyard. Through this designation program, Innovate Alabama provides resources and funding to those who are shaping the state’s ecosystem.
Talent Development
QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars
The QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars Internship Program places high school juniors and seniors from around the state into paid learning experiences to grow their competitive data literacy skills and to engage them with careers in data science.
Access to Resources
State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI)
Alabama’s State Small Business Credit Initiative is a program designed to support small businesses and entrepreneurs. LendAL aims to stimulate private sector lending by partnering with private lenders to extend credit to small businesses, fostering growth, innovation and job creation across the state. InvestAL offers high-match investments, connecting investors with early-stage startups and venture capital organizations.
Access to Resources
Supplemental Grant Program
The Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program provides additional funding for small businesses whose proven business models and technologies are helping accelerate innovation in the state.
Access to Resources
Tax Credit Program
To create a flourishing ecosystem in Alabama where tech accelerators and businesses thrive, Innovate Alabama offers tax incentives to help entrepreneurial support organizations do what they do best: provide the tools, resources and opportunities that help founders level up their companies.
Talent Development
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas)
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas), launched by The University of Alabama Honors College in collaboration with Innovate Alabama, consists of a student innovation contest focused on progressing young entrepreneurs and developing ideas.
Talent Development
FuelAL
FuelAL, a program in partnership between the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama and Innovate Alabama, connects undergraduate and graduate students to a region and its employers through activities that showcase Alabama’s unique assets, from sporting events and downtown concerts to beachside festivals and hikes in Alabama’s beautiful parks.
Talent Development
HBCU Innovation Experience
The HBCU Innovation Experience, a collaboration between The Alabama Collective and Innovate Alabama, offers a multi-phased approach to expose students to Alabama’s countless opportunities, educate students and faculty with training courses, empower students with statewide events and engage entrepreneurs with app design and business pitch competitions.
Access to Resources
Innovate Alabama Network
The Innovate Alabama Network serves as a comprehensive resource that connects communities, nonprofits and higher education institutions across the state who are fostering innovation in their own backyard. Through this designation program, Innovate Alabama provides resources and funding to those who are shaping the state’s ecosystem.
Talent Development
QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars
The QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars Internship Program places high school juniors and seniors from around the state into paid learning experiences to grow their competitive data literacy skills and to engage them with careers in data science.
Access to Resources
State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI)
Alabama’s State Small Business Credit Initiative is a program designed to support small businesses and entrepreneurs. LendAL aims to stimulate private sector lending by partnering with private lenders to extend credit to small businesses, fostering growth, innovation and job creation across the state. InvestAL offers high-match investments, connecting investors with early-stage startups and venture capital organizations.
Access to Resources
Supplemental Grant Program
The Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program provides additional funding for small businesses whose proven business models and technologies are helping accelerate innovation in the state.
Access to Resources
Tax Credit Program
To create a flourishing ecosystem in Alabama where tech accelerators and businesses thrive, Innovate Alabama offers tax incentives to help entrepreneurial support organizations do what they do best: provide the tools, resources and opportunities that help founders level up their companies.
Talent Development
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas)
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas), launched by The University of Alabama Honors College in collaboration with Innovate Alabama, consists of a student innovation contest focused on progressing young entrepreneurs and developing ideas.
Talent Development
FuelAL
FuelAL, a program in partnership between the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama and Innovate Alabama, connects undergraduate and graduate students to a region and its employers through activities that showcase Alabama’s unique assets, from sporting events and downtown concerts to beachside festivals and hikes in Alabama’s beautiful parks.
Talent Development
HBCU Innovation Experience
The HBCU Innovation Experience, a collaboration between The Alabama Collective and Innovate Alabama, offers a multi-phased approach to expose students to Alabama’s countless opportunities, educate students and faculty with training courses, empower students with statewide events and engage entrepreneurs with app design and business pitch competitions.
Access to Resources
Innovate Alabama Network
The Innovate Alabama Network serves as a comprehensive resource that connects communities, nonprofits and higher education institutions across the state who are fostering innovation in their own backyard. Through this designation program, Innovate Alabama provides resources and funding to those who are shaping the state’s ecosystem.
Talent Development
QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars
The QuantHub Alabama Data Scholars Internship Program places high school juniors and seniors from around the state into paid learning experiences to grow their competitive data literacy skills and to engage them with careers in data science.
Access to Resources
State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI)
Alabama’s State Small Business Credit Initiative is a program designed to support small businesses and entrepreneurs. LendAL aims to stimulate private sector lending by partnering with private lenders to extend credit to small businesses, fostering growth, innovation and job creation across the state. InvestAL offers high-match investments, connecting investors with early-stage startups and venture capital organizations.
Access to Resources
Supplemental Grant Program
The Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program provides additional funding for small businesses whose proven business models and technologies are helping accelerate innovation in the state.
Access to Resources
Tax Credit Program
To create a flourishing ecosystem in Alabama where tech accelerators and businesses thrive, Innovate Alabama offers tax incentives to help entrepreneurial support organizations do what they do best: provide the tools, resources and opportunities that help founders level up their companies.
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